Parasitic diseases of the central nervous system

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 815-841

  Abdel Razek, Ahmed Abdel Khalek ^a   Watcharakorn, Arvemas ^b,c   Castillo, Mauricio ^b  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Cysticercosis; Imaging; Infection; Parasitic; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; PYRIMETHAMINE SULFADIAZINE;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AMEBIASIS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN MALARIA; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTICERCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; GRANULOMATOUS AMEBIC ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCHISTOSOMIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAGONIMIASIS; PARASITOSIS; PREDICTION; PRIMARY AMEBIC MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPARGANOSIS; SPINAL CORD INFECTION; TOXOCARIASIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRICHINOSIS;

BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PARASITIC INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROSCHISTOSOMIASIS; PARAGONIMIASIS; SPARGANOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOXOCARIASIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL; TRICHINELLOSIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 82455192697     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: 15579867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2011.07.005     Document Type: Review

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